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As prices for pot drop, prices for trimming have begun slowly to drop, too. Growers have argued that trimmers don’t really face much risk and yet they get over 10% of the income. (Prices last year roughly averaged around $16oo per pound for outdoor and $28oo for indoor while trimming fees were around $200 per pound.) No one could even
Read morePress Release From Gallegos’ campaign — Legal Community Take Historic Action In an unprecedented action today, a clear majority of Humboldt County’s private bar attorneys, joined with half of the County’s current Deputy District Attorneys and Deputy Public Defenders in publicly endorsing the sitting District Attorney for re-election. In their letter, published in Thursday’s Times-Standard newspaper, the attorneys state that
Read moreFor years the growers of Humboldt hid their identities. Growers kept to themselves. They didn’t often allow outsiders into their world and they didn’t engage openly as growers with the outside world at all. Certainly, they didn’t engage overtly in politics (though marijuana money supported the environmental movement, non-profits, and some political campaigns.) This last month has changed that. Humboldt
Read moreThis Monday at 8 am, Our district attorney, Paul Gallegos will be on Dennis Huber’s KMUD show, Monday Morning Magazine. I’ll be there, too. We’ll be discussing marijuana issues. I’ve been asked to bring up the prosecution of small 215 growers but no one seems to be able to give me a good case. Does anyone have a specific one
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